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Camp La Jita, a Girl Scouts camp in Uvalde County, evacuated their camp earlier this week. Others say they are monitoring the weather and preparing to enact safety plans.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to change its rules for permits issued to so-called minor air polluters by handing states greater power to decide how much notice and public input residents receive before such permits are approved or denied. For Texans, the rule change could ...
WATCH LIVE RADAR IN VIDEO PLAYER ABOVEFORECAST HIGHLIGHTSFLASH FLOOD EMERGENCIES: Along Guadalupe and Pedernales Rivers, & in Uvalde CountyOTHER FLOODING RIVERS/CREEKS: Nueces, Frio, Sabinal, Leona, Medina, CiboloEXTREME RAINFALL: 8″ to 12″ over past 24 hours, Up to 18″to 29″ since Monday nightSA...
A San Antonio police officer is accused of assaulting his 12-year-old daughter, which caused temporary blindness in one of her eyes, according to an arrest affidavit. Bless Achor, 38, turned himself in to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday after authorities issued a warrant for his ar...
Fighting between the U.S. and Iran has intensified over control of the Strait of Hormuz, but hopes for a possible diplomatic solution have shown stubborn signs of life.Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday rejected suggestions that Islamabad had abandoned efforts to bring Washington and Tehran ...
Major League Baseball is set to have its earliest opening day next year except for international games, starting on March 24 — if there is an opening day.MLB said Thursday its 2027 season will start with a single game to be televised that night by Netflix. The teams have not been chosen.Opening m...
Yet another new eatery is in the works at the Pearl — and it has a familiar face behind the reins. Mixtli chef and co-owner Rico Torres has joined forces with Gabe Erales and André Natera to form a new hospitality group dubbed La Unión Hospitality, according to details unveiled Thursday by the pa...
Bird remains found on the wreckage of a sightseeing helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River last year in New York City and killed 6 people suggest that it struck several geese, investigators said Thursday.The National Transportation Safety Board reports released Thursday describe the eviden...
President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator is on unpaid leave after reports that he used his inside knowledge to make bets about the president’s speeches on the online prediction market Kalshi, the White House said Thursday.The firm’s enforcement chief said Kalshi contacted federal regulators...
Camp La Jita, a Girl Scouts camp in Uvalde County, evacuated their camp earlier this week. Others say they are monitoring the weather and preparing to enact safety plans.
A ghost gun company has been ordered to pay more than $100 million in the death of a Kentucky teenager who had purchased the company's pistol-building kit online. The verdict — believed to be the largest-ever against a gun dealer — was awarded by a jury Wednesday following a trial focused on whet...
President Donald Trump's administration has worked to stop offshore wind development on the grounds that it's a national security risk since late last year.It halted work on major projects, and it's buying back leases, citing national security concerns. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says a class...
The state of Florida is set to execute two death row inmates on the same day for the first time in more than 60 years, now that a stay has been lifted for a former police officer who had been scheduled to die earlier this year for killing an 11-year-old girl in 1987.James Aren Duckett, 68, is sch...
Mayor wants to increase San Antonio's involvement in VA sponsored psychedelic clinical trials to treat PTSD in veterans.Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones wants San Antonio to get psychedelic drug clinical trials to help treat veterans was first posted on July 16, 2026 at 1:00 pm.©2021 "San Antonio Repo...
Federal safety investigators looking into a runaway Tesla that killed a grandmother in her home say the driver had pressed the accelerator to full speed, suggesting the vehicle's self-driving software was not to blame.The driver had told police that he had the self-driving software turned on, but...
The University of Texas at San Antonio and the Oasis student housing complex are working with the Red Cross to assist at least 10 students displaced by the tornado that touched down in the area, San Antonio Fire Department officials told the Current. Depending on availability, affected resident...
A Republican senator whose support will be necessary to advance Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general said Thursday that Blanche must meet with accusers of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to earn his vote. Sen. Thom Tillis' had indicated during Blanche's confirmation hearing on We...
Speaking on the House floor Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, said “Israel does not need — or quite honestly deserve — more American money for weapons.” Castro was one of 103 House Democrats who voted Wednesday to cut the $3.3 billion in military aid the U.S. supplies to Israel ...
Jordan Walker rooted for Chipper Jones as a young Braves fan raised in suburban Atlanta and used to beg his family to take him to baseball games at Turner Field.Walker’s parents -- “Jordan’s Dad” and “Jordan’s Mom,” as known by their customized jerseys this week at the Home Run Derby — often obli...
The FBI sought a search warrant to seize plastic bags with “crystal-like substances” inside the van of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was fatally shot by an immigration agent last week. The FBI said it suspects methamphetamine, but the lawyer representing Salgao Araujo’s brother on Thursday said it ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday convened leaders from more than 60 countries to take part in the Trump administration's latest effort to quell what it calls “left wing” political terrorism, a marquee issue for Republicans heading into the midterm elections. This focus comes even as stu...
Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday that officials were working to confirm additional details on the victim.
Brazil has described the latest U.S. tariffs on certain Brazilian imports as unjustifiable and politically motivated and threatened on Thursday to impose reciprocal tariffs against U.S. products. The country's top diplomat criticized U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for the move.The U.S. said ...
Despite a “wider footprint” compared to last year’s Hill Country floods, Kendall County officials reported no significant injuries connected to this week’s flooding. Kendall County Judge Shane Stolarczyk and Kendall County Emergency Management Coordinator Brian Constantine provided an update on t...
Belgian rider Tim Merlier earned another stage win at the Tour de France while several riders fell as they sprinted to the line Thursday.Defending champion Tadej Pogacar avoided the crash and kept his significant overall lead over second-place Jonas Vingegaard after 12 stages.It was Merlier’s thi...
The Trump administration is reviving a rule that could deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits that could include food stamps, Medicaid, housing vouchers and others. The policy, known as “public charge,” appeared on Thursday in the Federal Register. It will be formally published on...
Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state.BOCA CHICA BEACH — As a child, Christopher Basaldu, a lifelong resident of Brownsville, would take family trips to Boca Chi...
Severe flash flooding has hit parts of the Hill Country along the Guadalupe and Pedernales rivers, prompting the National Weather Service to issue multiple flash flood emergencies. The NWS reserves this type of warning for "exceedingly rare," life-threatening flood situations.
The conflict between Iran and the United States has intensified in recent days and an interim deal to end the fighting has collapsed less than a month after it was signed.The Memorandum of Understanding was supposed to halt all military operations and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterw...
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed this week to its highest level in nearly a year, driving up borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers.The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate rose to 6.55% from 6.49% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the av...
The U.S. Treasury last year swelled with revenue from President Donald Trump’s double-digit taxes on imports from almost every country on earth.But the money dried up after the Supreme Court struck down the biggest and boldest of Trump’s tariffs in February.The question now is: Can the president’...
The San Antonio Film Festival, the largest event of its kind in South Texas, opens next Tuesday, bringing six days of films from around the world packaged in an approachable experience. Filmmaking is an insular world in which contacts are paramount. SAFILM understands this and intentionally craft...
A shelter-in-place remains in effect for Uvalde County as an excessive amount of rain continues to fall. In Uvalde County, over 10 inches of rain have fallen Thursday on top of the showers for the last couple of days. The severe weather has caused all major highways and many Uvalde County streets...
San Antonio music fans shouldn’t let the recent precipitation keep them indoors. This week’s options include country icon Dwight Yoakam, Grupo Frontera’s arena-sized regional Mexican party and enough crushing doom metal to make forget the dampness altogether. Thursday, July 16 Hemisfair Summer Se...
A man was hit and killed by a vehicle early Thursday morning on the far West Side, according to San Antonio police. Officers responded to the incident just before 5 a.m. in the 5000 block of Spurs Ranch, which is located near U.S. Highway 90. According to an SAPD preliminary report, a witness tra...
Heavy, pungent wildfire smoke darkened skies in the U.S. on Thursday from the Great Lakes to parts of the East Coast, reducing visibility and prompting warnings that breathing the air outside could be dangerous.Officials in many cities urged residents to stay inside or wear masks outside as air q...
Authorities arrested a San Antonio police officer Wednesday on charges of injuring a child and child endangerment, department officials said. Bless Achor, a six-year SAPD veteran, turned himself in to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office after learning a warrant had been issued for his arrest, accor...
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) issued a CLEAR Alert for a 28-year-old man last seen on the West Side.According to DPS, Zeus Dimas was last seen Wednesday in the 2400 block of Rivas Street, which is located south of Culebra Road.Dimas is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs around 140 pou...
Officials under President Donald Trump want to make it easier for men to get a prescription for testosterone, the latest shift in a decades-long debate over the benefits and risks of replacing the hormone that affects sex drive, mood and other health factors.The move, backed by Health Secretary R...
Nearly two weeks after the one-year mark of the deadly Hill Country floods, a Kerr County wildlife rescue facility was torn apart for the second time. The Buck Wild Animal Rescue and Wildlife Rehab facility, which is located in the 200 block of Lazy Creek Road in Ingram, shared videos of how this...
The U.S. government has designated two new Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. They are the Juárez Cartel, on the border with Texas, and Los Viagras, a criminal group from the western state of Michoacán. The Federal Register, the U.S. government's gazette, published the designatio...
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